The reader is the final arbiter.

You need to grow up, and realize what it is you need right now, and what you can live without.

You ever get the feeling all hell’s about to break loose and there’s nothing you can do about it?

Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow - James Matthew Barrie

Why should I wait until tomorrow to tell you something that I will tell you every day? I know you like all that sentimental romantic stuff, Ruth, but you know me, I am not too much into that. Let the pastor marry us as they normally do and let everything else be from my lips to your ears only, okay, sweetheart?

He paused just long enough for me to know I was starting to bug him. I bug a lot of people, they usually do just what Sully did, make a show of putting down the important thing they were doing to go and do the unimportant thing I just asked, solely in the interest of getting rid of me. Sometimes I think the bulk of my societal interaction is annoying people. I wonder what that's doing to my psyche.